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[trainboyH16-44]

Max, what are you trying to say? I think that's exactly the point. What....uh...other Max was saying was that CN is one of the few roads that doesn't even do anything to help its PR out.

[wcfan4ever]

Three left!!!!  WC 7514 arrived in Green Bay and was now put onto A411.  The WC 7531 we all hope will be taken off at Shops Yard for some more time for the fans.

 WC 007514 GREEN BAY WI 01 23 0615 U Arrive In-Transit
A41981 CN
WC 007519 FOND DU LAC WI 01 23 0503 U Arrive In-Transit
L51081 CN
WC 007531 FOND DU LAC WI 01 23 1044 U Arrive In-Transit
M34051 CN

[coborn35]

Max, what are you trying to say? I think that's exactly the point. What....uh...other Max was saying was that CN is one of the few roads that doesn't even do anything to help its PR out.

CN is more of a "behind the scenes" PR railroad. They have made many gratis moves for the LSRM/NSSR they could have charged for.

But

They run a Santa train.

They donated two locomotives to help a region in Canada after a power outage.

They donated SOO LINE GP30 #700 to us, and may very well donate a WC SD45.

They have had open houses.

Run two IC E units.

ETC.

 

So you see, just because you dont THINK a railroad is doing something because you dont live by it, does not mean it isnt.

 

[UPTRAIN]

Theyre just looking out for numero uno, like all the railroads.

 Really though, in all seriousness.  UP totes their special stuff around to impress people.  UP took their steamers to "Railfair 99" in Sacramento.  Who comes to Railfair?  Railfans.  If you add 1 and 1 you get 2.  If you add a railroad oriented event and a Class 1's steam locomotives, you get railfans.  They get PR from the general public, sure.  But, the caravans pacing the locomotives aren't the general public for the most part.  If it is, they got stuck in the line of traffic on the way out of the town the service stop was in.

Pump

[snagletooth]

 All that has virtually nothing to do with the public, very little to do with railfans, and a whole lot to do with shippers, stockholders, and politicians.

[UPTRAIN]

Well, I'm just guessing here, but if I had a corperation approaching their susquentennial and still going strong, I'd probably flaunt around some, too.

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[coborn35]

I admit, yes, UP is number 1 is railfan pleasing activities.

[B.Erdmann]

the last SD45's i saw were

7515 at Stevens Point Dec 3rd 2006

7501 at Stevens Point Dec 3rd 2006

7531 at Stevens Point Jan 22 2007

i always liked trains since i was 4 but i never got much detail into them if we got stopped at a crossing i would always be excited & mainly it would be on the WC in wisconsin. see but back then i never knew i was gonna get much into railroading.   i  just got into taking pictures & the searching for SD 45s just a few months ago & that not many were left. i knew that the wc went through my town but just 3 years ago i just found out by looking up wc that CN bought them.

other WC locomotives i saw

WC 2500 which is currently at stevens point

 WC 3002 currently at stevens point

WC 6005 Unknown

WC 1563 currently at fond du lac

WC 2003 currently at fondy

WC 2001 currently at waukesha

 

any one got a up to the minute update on WC sd 45s or have they all been sent to homewood?i wish one would get donated to the national rr museum in green bay along w/ WC 715.

i hope CN dont get rid of the  SD40-2, SW1500, Geeps & the rest of the WC fleet. then history will be destroyed. i hope that their will be some WC left by the time i can work for CN which i plan on doing. im not a big fan of CN locomotives. I like IC Locomotives too.  im trying to think what it would be like if WC was never bought by CN. some thoughts all the SD 45s would still be in service, some SW 1500 & 1200 would be in service, as well as the SDL 39's. i dont know abt the F45 & FP 45's have they been retired or not? if not i would like to see one.

 

whats your thoguth on my question what would it be like if WC was never bought?

[B.Erdmann]

 i guess i can answer my own question,

 

WC 7514 was the last one in service & it was being taken down to homewood or one of them today so all the SD 45's are gone.

[EJE818]

The 7514 was in route to Homewood where it will be retired and put into the deadline. Once this one gets to Homewood, if it is not there already, there will sadly be no more WC SD45s.

[trainboyH16-44]

Requiem aeternam, dona eis Domine. Et lux perpetua luceat eis. Kyrie eleison.

[Lord Atmo]

oh CN. how do i hate thee. let me count thy ways: 

-scrapping all those WC SD45s

-putting noselights on everything

-ordering all their SD40-2s with those horrendous 4-eyed widenose cabs

-SD50Fs and SD60Fs. what have you done to the beutiful machines that were: the SD50s and SD60s?! i mean. fat 4-eyed locomotives with noselights. ugh. 

[B.Erdmann]

im not a big Fan of CN  & some reason to state it

retireing all the WC SD45's

retireing the WC SDL 39's

retireing some  WC SW 1500's & all the 1200's

the WC GP 9's

for taking over WC in the first place

removing history

if they needed a link to chicago they should of tried BNSF or CP/SOO, UP

i would of seen IC & WC go together then it could of been called the wisconsin & illinois central

 I am pround to honor the WC name w/ my avitar here & my SD45  sig pic & i also wear 2 WC pins on my jacket & im gonna get a stich on WC logo for my jacket. & whenever igo out to train yards, etc ill wear a WC hat when i get one.

so im gonna show the WC name to show CN that people still love the WC

 

 

 

[wctransfer]

WC 7514 arrived at Homewood at nearly 12 on Saturday night. Not sure whats happened since, but there are no more on the rails anymore.

Alec

[bigbnfan]

 so, what about MRL and Leasing SD45's how many are left